Matthew Edwards

Assc Professor

Zicklin School of Business

Department: Law

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: matthew.edwards@baruch.cuny.edu

Education

Admitted to Practice Law, New York State

J.D., Law, NYU School of Law

B.A., Political Science, SUNY- Binghamton

Journal Articles

Edwards, M. A. (2024). From Publius to Santos: Congressional Expulsion and the Enforcement of Legislative Virtue. Emory Law Journal Online, 74. pp. 23-47.

(2023). Is a Burrito a Sandwich? Introducing Business Law Students to the Fundamentals of Legal Reasoning. Journal of Legal Studies Education, 40(1). 85-118.

Edwards, M. A. (2021). Fraud Against Financial Institutions: Judging Materiality Post-Escobar. William & Mary Business Law Review, 12. 621-684.

Edwards, M. (2020). Punishing Hope? Materiality and Immateriality in Federal Mortgage Fraud Cases under 18 U.S.C. § 1014. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 22. 492-532.

Edwards, M. (2020). The Concept and Federal Crime of Mortgage Fraud. American Criminal Law Review, 57. 57-107.

(2014). The Virtue of Mandatory Disclosure. Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, 28(No. 1). 47-77.

(2014). Teaching Consumer Price Discrimination: An Interdisciplinary Case Study for Business Law Students. Journal of Legal Studies Education, 31. 291-324.

(2009). “The Rebate ‘Rip-Off’: New York’s Legislative Responses to Common Consumer Rebate Complaints. Pace Law Review, 29(3). 471-478.

(2008). The FTC and New Paternalism. Administrative Law Review, 60. 323-370.

(2007). The Law Marketing and Behavioral Economics of Consumer Rebates . Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance , 12. pp. 362-423.

Edwards, M. (2006). Price and Prejudice: The Case Against Consumer Equality in the Information Age. Lewis and Clark law Review, 10. pp. 559-596.

Edwards, M. A. (2005). The Law and Social Norms of Pay Secrecy. Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Laws, 26. pp.41-63.

Edwards, M. A. (2005). Empirical and Behavioral Critiques of Mandatory Disclosure: Socioeconomic and the Quest for the Truth in Lending. Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy , 14. pp. 199-249.

Edwards, M. A. (2002). Posner's Pragmatism and Payton Home Arrests. Washington Law Review, 77. pp. 299-395.

Edwards, M. A. (2001). Teaching Foreign LL.M. Students About U.S. Legal Scholarship. Journal of Legal Education, 51. pp. 520-532.

Book Chapters

Edwards, M. (2018). Legislating the Personal Virtue of Justice. In LeBar, M. (Ed.), Justice (pp. 261-290). New York, NY,USA. Oxford University Press.

Presentations

Edwards, M. (2025, August 8). The Elusive Normative Core of Behavioral Business Ethics. ALSB Annual Conference: 2024. Washington, DC: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (International).

Edwards, M. (2025, August 8). The Legislator as Phronimos (or Anti-Phronimos): Virtue and the Legislative Role. ALSB Annual Conference: 2024. Washington, DC: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (International).

Edwards, M. (2025, August 8). From Publius to Santos: Congressional Expulsion and the Enforcement of Legislative Virtue. ALSB Annual Conference: 2024. Washington, DC: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (International).

Other Scholarly Works

Edwards, M. (2009). Legal Expressivism: A Primer.

TitleFunding Agency SponsorStart DateEnd DateAwarded DateTotal FundingStatus
THE VIRTUE OF DISCLOSURE: MANDATORY CONSUMER DISCLOSURE LAWS AND NEO-ARISTOTELIAN VIRTUE ETHICSPSC-CUNY 3807/01/200706/30/20084400Completed